Last generated: Monday, December 15 2025 08:30 AM CST
NOTE: 500 level courses require graduate standing
Last generated: Monday, December 15 2025 08:30 AM CST
NOTE: 500 level courses require graduate standing
3 TO 5 hours. 3 to 4 undergraduate hours. 4 to 5 graduate hours. May be repeated for credit. Extensive computer use required.
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45433 | LCD | 09:00 AM - 11:30 AM | W | 5100 | 2AEH | Quinn, T | Meet on campus | |
| 3 hours Publishing Fwd:Museums Journal Restricted to Undergrad - Chicago. Art Seminar Lab Fee $150.00 Flat Fee. | ||||||||
| 44677 | LCD | 12:00 PM - 02:30 PM | M | 5100 | 2AEH | Lopez Garcia, M | Meet on campus | |
| 3 hours Visual Culture of Labor The Visual Culture of Labor in the Americas This graduate seminar investigates the aesthetic forms and embodied practices of labor across the Americas from the mid-20th century to the present. The course examines how work, workers, and labor relations are represented, mediated, and experienced through the lens of diverse media, including photography, film, performance, public art, and digital platforms. We explore the role of the visible as both a mechanism that reinforces labor inequality, precarity, and dispossession, and as an active instrument for challenging these systems by reimagining the social value of labor. The readings in this course employ an intersectional approach, as we examine the intersection of gender, class, race, and ethnicity within local and transnational labor circuits. The course highlights workers self-representational practices as strategies of resistance, asserting the humanity and dignity of workers in the face of systemic marginalization. Ultimately, the course focuses on the visual as a critical space for understanding the complexity of the politics of visibility and the shifting conditions of contemporary forms of labor. | ||||||||
| 42065 | LCD - S | 09:00 AM - 11:30 AM | T | 5100 | 2AEH | Mensah, L | Meet on campus | |
| 3 hours African American Art in Museum Modern & Contemporary African American Art in Museum Exhibitions: A History Prof. Lucy Mensah This seminar provides an extensive, historical overview of the cross-impact of African American visual art and museum exhibition practices. Historiographical approaches to the study of museum exhibitions vary in research method, theoretical perspectives, and subject matter. Grounded in case study analysis, this courses lectures and discussions will examine how African American art, as a constantly evolving cultural form with distinct visual idioms, initiated major shifts in exhibition theory and praxis. Critical to this examination will be methodologies borrowed from both Art History and Visual Cultural Studies that help periodize and explain key shifts in African American artmaking and its conflicting aesthetic and thematic principles. Fundamentally, students will explore how African American art has called attention to the ideological nature of the gallery space, the legacy of ethnography and the art/artefact dichotomy in the display of world cultures, and the visual logic innate in exhibition-making that privileges universality/ transparency over specificity/untranslatability. | ||||||||
4 hours. Previously listed as AH 542. Prerequisite(s): Approval of the Department. Restricted to Graduate College. Restricted to Museum and Exhibition Studies major(s).
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42066 | LCD | 12:00 PM - 02:30 PM | T | 5100 | 2AEH | Mensah, L | Meet on campus |
4 hours. Previously listed as AH 544. Prerequisite(s): Approval of the Department. Restricted to Graduate College. Restricted to Museum and Exhibition Studies major(s).
Art Seminar Lab Fee $150.00 Flat Fee.
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42067 | LCD | 11:00 AM - 01:30 PM | R | 5100 | 2AEH | Lee, L | Meet on campus | |
| Public Engagement | ||||||||
4 hours. Previously listed as AH 546. Field trips required at a nominal fee. Recommended background: MUSE 532 and MUSE 543 and MUSE 545. Restricted to Graduate College.
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42258 | LCD | 09:00 AM - 11:30 AM | T | 5100 | 2AEH | Mensah, L | Meet on campus | |
| African American Art in Museum Modern & Contemporary African American Art in Museum Exhibitions: A History Prof. Lucy Mensah This seminar provides an extensive, historical overview of the cross-impact of African American visual art and museum exhibition practices. Historiographical approaches to the study of museum exhibitions vary in research method, theoretical perspectives, and subject matter. Grounded in case study analysis, this courses lectures and discussions will examine how African American art, as a constantly evolving cultural form with distinct visual idioms, initiated major shifts in exhibition theory and praxis. Critical to this examination will be methodologies borrowed from both Art History and Visual Cultural Studies that help periodize and explain key shifts in African American artmaking and its conflicting aesthetic and thematic principles. Fundamentally, students will explore how African American art has called attention to the ideological nature of the gallery space, the legacy of ethnography and the art/artefact dichotomy in the display of world cultures, and the visual logic innate in exhibition-making that privileges universality/ transparency over specificity/untranslatability. | ||||||||
| 46464 | LCD | 09:00 AM - 11:30 AM | W | 5100 | 2AEH | Quinn, T | Meet on campus | |
| Publishing Fwd:Museums Journal Art Seminar Lab Fee $150.00 Flat Fee. | ||||||||
| 46463 | LCD | 12:00 PM - 02:30 PM | M | 5100 | 2AEH | Lopez Garcia, M | Meet on campus | |
| Visual Culture of Labor Same as LALS 502. The Visual Culture of Labor in the Americas. This graduate seminar investigates the aesthetic forms and embodied practices of labor across the Americas from the mid-20th century to the present. The course examines how work, workers, and labor relations are represented, mediated, and experienced through the lens of diverse media, including photography, film, performance, public art, and digital platforms. We explore the role of the visible as both a mechanism that reinforces labor inequality, precarity, and dispossession, and as an active instrument for challenging these systems by reimagining the social value of labor. The readings in this course employ an intersectional approach, as we examine the intersection of gender, class, race, and ethnicity within local and transnational labor circuits. The course highlights workers self-representational practices as strategies of resistance, asserting the humanity and dignity of workers in the face of systemic marginalization. Ultimately, the course focuses on the visual as a critical space for understanding the complexity of the politics of visibility and the shifting conditions of contemporary forms of labor. | ||||||||
4 hours. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. Previously listed as AH 582. Prerequisite(s): Approval of the Department. Restricted to Graduate College. Restricted to Museum and Exhibition Studies major(s). Departmental Approval Required
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48300 | PR | ARRANGED | Lopez Garcia, M | Online with deadlines | ||||
| 48299 | PR | ARRANGED | Mensah, L | Online with deadlines | ||||
| 42303 | PR | ARRANGED | Quinn, T | Online with deadlines |
0 TO 8 hours. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. Restricted to Graduate College. Restricted to Museum and Exhibition Studies major(s). Departmental Approval Required
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48302 | CNF | ARRANGED | Lopez Garcia, M | Online with deadlines | ||||
| 48301 | CNF | ARRANGED | Mensah, L | Online with deadlines | ||||
| 42305 | CNF | ARRANGED | Quinn, T | Online with deadlines |
0 TO 8 hours. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours. Previously listed as AH 597. Extensive computer use required. Prerequisite(s): Approval of the Department. Restricted to Graduate College. Restricted to Museum and Exhibition Studies major(s).
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45255 | CNF | 09:00 AM - 11:30 AM | M | 5100 | 2AEH | Lopez Garcia, M | On campus and online |
0 TO 16 hours. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours. Restricted to Graduate College. Restricted to Museum and Exhibition Studies major(s).
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45256 | CNF | 09:00 AM - 11:30 AM | M | 5100 | 2AEH | Lopez Garcia, M | On campus and online |